Wheat — Yield in Albania
Albania: Wheat — Yield was 3,933 kg/ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Wheat — Yield in Albania, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for wheat — yield in Albania is 3,933 kg/ha, measured in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 3.0% on the previous year and down 1.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, wheat — yield in Albania peaked at 4,327 kg/ha in 2020 and was at its lowest, 712.7 kg/ha, in 1963.
Albania ranks 43rd of 124 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Wheat — Yield in Albania, year by year
| Year | kg/ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 773.1 kg/ha | — |
| 1962 | 1,052 kg/ha | +36.1% |
| 1963 | 712.7 kg/ha | -32.3% |
| 1964 | 962.5 kg/ha | +35.0% |
| 1965 | 1,134 kg/ha | +17.9% |
| 1966 | 1,240 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1967 | 1,355 kg/ha | +9.3% |
| 1968 | 1,412 kg/ha | +4.2% |
| 1969 | 1,639 kg/ha | +16.0% |
| 1970 | 1,538 kg/ha | -6.2% |
| 1971 | 1,874 kg/ha | +21.8% |
| 1972 | 1,900 kg/ha | +1.4% |
| 1973 | 2,010 kg/ha | +5.8% |
| 1974 | 2,062 kg/ha | +2.6% |
| 1975 | 1,938 kg/ha | -6.1% |
| 1976 | 2,553 kg/ha | +31.7% |
| 1977 | 2,450 kg/ha | -4.0% |
| 1978 | 2,450 kg/ha | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 2,490 kg/ha | +1.6% |
| 1980 | 2,520 kg/ha | +1.2% |
| 1981 | 2,532 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 1982 | 2,689 kg/ha | +6.2% |
| 1983 | 3,088 kg/ha | +14.9% |
| 1984 | 3,158 kg/ha | +2.3% |
| 1985 | 3,141 kg/ha | -0.5% |
| 1986 | 2,894 kg/ha | -7.8% |
| 1987 | 3,103 kg/ha | +7.2% |
| 1988 | 3,201 kg/ha | +3.2% |
| 1989 | 2,930 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 1990 | 3,020 kg/ha | +3.1% |
| 1991 | 2,070 kg/ha | -31.5% |
| 1992 | 2,439 kg/ha | +17.8% |
| 1993 | 2,998 kg/ha | +22.9% |
| 1994 | 2,474 kg/ha | -17.5% |
| 1995 | 2,870 kg/ha | +16.0% |
| 1996 | 2,174 kg/ha | -24.3% |
| 1997 | 2,852 kg/ha | +31.2% |
| 1998 | 2,804 kg/ha | -1.7% |
| 1999 | 2,495 kg/ha | -11.0% |
| 2000 | 3,046 kg/ha | +22.0% |
| 2001 | 2,822 kg/ha | -7.3% |
| 2002 | 3,162 kg/ha | +12.0% |
| 2003 | 2,863 kg/ha | -9.5% |
| 2004 | 3,113 kg/ha | +8.7% |
| 2005 | 3,158 kg/ha | +1.5% |
| 2006 | 3,079 kg/ha | -2.5% |
| 2007 | 3,550 kg/ha | +15.3% |
| 2008 | 4,017 kg/ha | +13.2% |
| 2009 | 4,023 kg/ha | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 3,990 kg/ha | -0.8% |
| 2011 | 4,230 kg/ha | +6.0% |
| 2012 | 4,110 kg/ha | -2.8% |
| 2013 | 4,129 kg/ha | +0.5% |
| 2014 | 4,000 kg/ha | -3.1% |
| 2015 | 3,951 kg/ha | -1.2% |
| 2016 | 3,900 kg/ha | -1.3% |
| 2017 | 4,037 kg/ha | +3.5% |
| 2018 | 3,693 kg/ha | -8.5% |
| 2019 | 4,068 kg/ha | +10.2% |
| 2020 | 4,327 kg/ha | +6.4% |
| 2021 | 4,130 kg/ha | -4.5% |
| 2022 | 4,296 kg/ha | +4.0% |
| 2023 | 4,054 kg/ha | -5.6% |
| 2024 | 3,933 kg/ha | -3.0% |
Albania compared with similar countries
- Albania's 3,933 kg/ha is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 2,753 kg/ha, 1.4× the median. (29 countries reporting)
- Albania's 3,933 kg/ha is below the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 4,432 kg/ha, 89% of the median. (42 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,142 kg/ha | 712.7 kg/ha | 1,639 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 2,126 kg/ha | 1,538 kg/ha | 2,553 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,926 kg/ha | 2,520 kg/ha | 3,201 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,620 kg/ha | 2,070 kg/ha | 3,020 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 3,283 kg/ha | 2,822 kg/ha | 4,023 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,011 kg/ha | 3,693 kg/ha | 4,230 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,148 kg/ha | 3,933 kg/ha | 4,327 kg/ha | 5 |
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More agriculture & rural data for Albania
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 8.17 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.148 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 1,923 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.93 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4113 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 14.8% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 14.8% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.5% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.8% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is wheat — yield in Albania?
- Wheat — yield in Albania was 3,933 kg/ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest wheat — yield recorded in Albania?
- The highest recorded value was 4,327 kg/ha in 2020.
- What is the lowest wheat — yield recorded in Albania?
- The lowest recorded value was 712.7 kg/ha in 1963.
- How does Albania rank for wheat — yield?
- Albania ranks 43rd out of 124 countries with data for 2024.
- Is wheat — yield rising or falling in Albania?
- Over the last ten years it is down 1.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Albania data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Wheat — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.